Re: Have these config files been compromised?

From: Russ Johnson (russj@dimstar.net)
Date: 07/03/02


Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:49:43 -0700
From: Russ Johnson <russj@dimstar.net>

On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:27:14 GMT
The Broken One <mindwerks$smapno@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was checking out my /etc/sysconfig directory in RH 7.2 when I noticed
> these file dates and sizes. In particular the files that have 2001 where
> the time field should be. Has this system been compromised or is this a
> filesystem problem (EXT3) or what? Thanks!

On most unix type systems, the time will only be displayed on files that are less than one year old. After that, the time is replaced by the year.

In other words, what you are seeing is normal behavior.

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